Issam Akel convicted over 'an attempt to to transfer Palestinian lands to a foreign country' ■ His arrest and indictment signify a worsening in tensions between Israel and Palestinians over issue of land plots' sale

As a public figure, Oz was the ideal cipher on which outsiders could project their own ideas of a 'different Israel': philosophic, progressive, peace-seeking. But that idealistic dream, together with the two-state solution Oz tirelessly advocated, has ...